View full sizeIn this 2001 file photo, a Delta Airlines Boeing 727-200 is readied for takeoff at the Mobile Regional Airport in Mobile, Alabama. Delta Airlines is cutting service between Mobile and Memphis. (Press-Register/G.M. Andrews)

According to the industry website www.airliners.net, and later confirmed by company officials, Delta will be discontinuing direct flights from Mobile, Alabama; Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi; Baltimore; Panama City, Florida; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Wichita, Kansas; and Seattle.

The company will also be cutting one flight from Huntsville, Alabama; Cleveland, Ohio; Newark, New Jersey; Jacksonville, Florida; Philadelphia; and Shreveport, Louisiana.

The website reports Delta's daily flights in Memphis will be reduced from 164 to 149.

In March, Delta said it would cut departures from Memphis International Airport by 25 percent , from about 200 daily flights to 150-170.

Delta operates one of its hubs at Memphis International.

Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter told McClatchy-Tribune Information Service that the cuts are part of an overall reduction announced earlier this year, brought about primarily by the need to cut costs due to ongoing volatility in jet fuel prices.